Awards and Achievements

Aurealis Awards:

• 2024 Winner Best Horror Novella – Shattered, Black Hare Press
• 2023 Finalist Best Horror Short Story – “Blood Born”, Midnight Echo 18: Curses, AHWA

Australasian Shadows Awards:

• 2025 Finalist Collected Work – The Connections We Keep, Black Hare Press
• 2024 Finalist Paul Haines Award for Long Fiction – Shattered, Black Hare Press
• 2024 Finalist Poetry – “Just An Unnerving Sensation”, HWA Poetry Showcase XI, HWA
• 2023 Winner Best Poetry – “What It Means To Be With You”, HWA Poetry Showcase X, HWA
• 2021 Finalist Best Short Story – “The Best Medicine”, Midnight Echo 16, AHWA

BookFest Book Awards:

• 2024 Winner – YA Science Fiction – Memories Don’t Lie, Black Hare Press
• 2024 Winner – Sci-Fi Action/Adventure – Memories Don’t Lie, Black Hare Press
• 2024 Winner – Sci-Fi Genetic Engineering – Memories Don’t Lie, Black Hare Press

American Legacy Book Awards:

• 2024 Finalist Science Fiction – Memories Don’t Lie, Black Hare Press

Indies Today Book Awards:

• Winner 2026 Best Horror – The Connections We Keep, Black Hare Press

• 2023 Semifinalist – Memories Don’t Lie, Black Hare Press

Australian SF (Ditmar) Awards

• 2025 Ditmar Awards – Finalist Best Novella or Novelette – Shattered, Black Hare Press

Author Shout:

• 2024 Reader Ready Awards – Recommended Read – Memories Don’t Lie, Black Hare Press
• 2023 Cover Wars Winner – Memories Don’t Lie, Black Hare Press

Literary Titan Book Awards:

• 2024 Gold Book Award – Memories Don’t Lie, Black Hare Press

Author Interviews

Australian Authors – Author Interview

Dissecting Pauline Yates – Black Hare Press Author Interview Series

Author Services Australia – Author Interview

Gingernuts of Horror:

• Author Interviews – Spawn 2: Behind The Scenes Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4.
• Author Interviews: Killer Creatures Down Under: Horror Stories with Bite – ‘Behind the Scenes’ Part One / Part Two / Part Three / Part Four.

Australian Book Lovers Podcast:

• Episode #121 Writer’s Room with E. J. Dawson & Pauline Yates
• Episode #85 – A Chat with Author Pauline Yates

Literary Titan Author Interview – Memories Don’t Lie

Rambles, Writings and Amusing Musings – Author Interview: Pauline Yates

Fiction Writing Made Easy Podcast: Ep. 89 Pauline Yates writing chat with Savannah Gilbo

Author Interview with BrightSide Story Studio

The Mystery of Writing – Interview with Elena Hartwell

Nightmare Fuel Magazine – Interview with Pauline Yates – Memories Don’t Lie

Black Hare Press:

• Interview with Pauline Yates and Jodie Christensen – Part 1 – The editor asks the author
• Memories Don’t Lie – Black Hare Press – Launch Interview

The Hybrid Author Podcast – Episode #46 Pauline Yates on Writing Horror

‘The Best Medicine’ Author Interview with Caterina Franciosi, “Il Salotto Letterario”, Italy

RiLL (Italy) – Author Interview – The Best Medicine – https://www.rill.it/intervista-collettiva-RWT-MI2021

Metaphorosis:

• It came from Pauline Yates
• Another question for Pauline Yates
• A question for Pauline Yates
• It came from Pauline Yates
• Pauline Yates – (Raising Mira) – Awe + Longing
• Five Questions for Pauline Yates

Reviews

The Seers’ Table May 2025/HWA

Shattered – reviewed by Laurie Bell.

Literary Titan Reviews – Memories Don’t Lie

Ellen Datlow – The Best Horror of the Year Recommendations:

• Volume Sixteen Recommendations (2023) – Longlist – “What It Means To Be With You.”
• Volume #14 – Longlist – “The Best Medicine”

RiLL (Italy):

• Review: The Bar Immediately After – The Best Medicine
• Review: The Bar Immediately After with personal appreciation for “The Best Medicine.’
• Review: ‘The Bar Immediately After’ – The Best Medicine
• Review: The Best Medicine

Writing Contests

Australasian Horror Writers Association:

• 2020 Winner AHWA Robert N Stephensen Flash/Short Story Contest – “The Best Medicine”

2021 Australian Writers Centre

• Furious Fiction – Longlist – Oh, Christmas Tree
• Furious Fiction – Shortlist – ‘Flying Home for Christmas’
• Furious Fiction – Longlist – ‘Before You Go’

NYCMidnight Writing Challenges:

• Flash Fiction Challenge R1 – 2nd place – ‘Splat’
• Flash Fiction Challenge R2 – 2nd place – ‘Cooked’
• 2017 Short Story Challenge – Semifinals – 1st place – ‘Rock Bottom’
• 2016 Short Story Challenge R1 – 1st place – ‘Last Bets’
• 2015 Short Story Challenge R1 – 1st place – ‘Johnny Light Fingers’
• 2015 Short Story Challenge R2 – 1st place – ‘Three Drops For A Future’
• 2014 Short Story Challenge R1 – 1st place – ‘The Auditon’

2020 The Best Of Times Short Story Contest:

• Commended – “Han Solo in a Jar”

2017 Yeah Write Short Story Contest:

• Top 10 – Man of the House

2015 The Short Fiction Break:

• Editor’s Choice – Partners in Crime

2015 Writer Unboxed Flash Fiction Contest:

• Final Round – Honourable Mention – Steps
• R1 – 1st place – Toil and Trouble

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Guest Judging:

2025 AHWA Robert N Stephensen Flash/Short Story Contest

2024 Sydney Hammond Memorial Short Story Competition

2023 Australasian Shadows Awards

2022 Australasian Shadows Awards

2021 Australasian Shadows Awards